My friends in Los Angeles were texting me - the token New York Yankees fan for most of them - as their elation grew, error after Yankees error, mental blunder after mental blunder, leading to greater and greater Dodgers mania.
For sports fans, the spiral of defeat-induced depression is manageable if you are a functioning adult. You are granted five minutes sulking time before raising your shoulders and saying, 'It's just sports,' so people know you are not a loser who cannot manage their emotions.
What I am also telling myself as a fan is this: Losing is actually better than winning. This takes some mental gymnastics, but I am convincing myself.
Losing, first of all, is really funny. Dodgers fans can celebrate winning the World Series all they want, but we all know that Game 5 of the World Series was not won by the Dodgers, it was actively lost by the Yankees.
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